The New French Forum

A few minutes ago an email from SystèmeD asking the attention of the DIY guys how to: Réaliser le câblage et l'installation d'un tableau électrique pré-équipé . There goes your sunny sunday morning and afternoon: au travail .

Found these: interesting it's cheaper in Germany than the UK, that may change soon.

Well I thought this was a reasonable price so placed the order today and have been e-mailed to say it's on the way.

The Quest for the Holy Grail has never been easy. Sometimes rather objective websites can show what is possible within the existing French regulatory framework. The website of Photovoltaïque is one of them. Technical solutions can go beyond these legal limits: loads of application notes to be found, perhaps already implemented, pc-board and parts...

Don't agree, I'm not that daft.

And if you want validation for peace of mind or to protect you from an opportunistic purchaser in the future you can ask Consuel to visit and test the completed installation and grant a certificate of conformity, about €110, may have gone up since I had all mine (7) done but money well spent.

Much appreciated, many thanks indeed.

JD

@ Mysty: interesting follow-up question: LINKY smartmeter for power surveillance or still the old friendly disjoncteur de branchement ?

As LD already suggested: a power shedding system can be your best friend in these cases. Priority for lights and sockets etc., others please wait a few minutes or longer. A simple unit ( délesteur ) in your...

My Fluke meter is a UK version, so I had no idea if the French version was different, by the way you may not remember, but I do have a three phase installation, I suppose I will just stick with the R1+R2 test on each phase and then do it again on the single phase sections, but then for the few minutes it will take I may as well do a Rn test on...

Typically that publication - from what I have speed read - makes no mention of the cost of batteries or UPS that is required to convert the 12/24V into meaningful juice for your home radiator...

This is the bit I don't get. The physics.

Diagram..

Wind Turbine (Roof) --------------500 w Radiator (Room).

What do I need in between ?

I have...

Light switches, prices and reliability, read this . They don't like inrush currents (CFL lights etc.). Simple old school technology, made more expensive every year, thank you designers for the surprising looks of your new line of elegant switches and sockets for this year. One light switch of Legrand buys me ten high-tech voltage regulators, light...

The point de livraison number will not have changed, I threw away my old bills so cant tell you if it was contained on a 2005 bill or where.

I reckon it was though.

RCBO lessons in the UK : single-pole switching, so 50% of the French horizontal footprint. Trying to use every inch of available DIN-rail space (12 one module positions in Germany, not 13 as in France) Hager is marketing this elegant three-phase solution on the other side of the river Rhine. L1, L2 and L3 their own earth leakage protection to...

Thanks Robert - it was not really an experiment but more of an accident!

At point of electricity entry that is near the main gate, the lines branch off to the two houses where there are 30ma IDs, then there is another line going into a small tableau with an ID feeding two ccts each on an MCB - one to the pool and the other I think was an old one...

Hal, many owners of a Linky smartmeter would welcome your suggestion/question. ENEDIS keeps moving their information every two months or so, but from what I've seen in the past they are rather inflexible with their Type 1 and Type 2 connections. The 30 meters limit of Le-Dolly. Linky with it's integrated switch-off overload function can be reset...

A great product but too industrial for inside my home, would be great for the laundry room though, ideal for the homebrewers using both heating and cooling to maintain a set temperature.

Ijust bought one of these to try fitting to the heater, if it doesn't work it can join my ever growing collection of timing relay boards, coin acceptor...

I was very surprised at the price for brass. Disappointing because I recently dumped a large box of brass door handles, plates, screws, and misc. stuff into the metals skip at our local tip. Maybe 20kg.

:shock: :o Oh no - Always hoard the non-ferrous for the engineer's xmas drink fund :good:

Point taken I apologise.

In mitigation it was not I that spoke of beating people down with a cudgel nor your good self that spoke of Get an estimate for work needed to bring the property up to standard, present it to the seller and ask for that figure to be knocked off the price. which I think is what most of us reacted to.

The apartments will probably have a 6kVA connection to the grid, the so called puissance souscrite . One connection of 9 kVA for this 38 m2 surface will be (more than) enough, only one abonnement. Heating: electric? For a possible wiring lay-out see page 10 of this document .

Because there is already a raccordement you are not obliged to have a...

Whilst 2 pin sockets are technically still legal , yours probably may not even reach that minimum. 2 pin sockets (in the round recessed style fitting) are still available; but they must be supplied with fitted obturateurs and are usually fitted were a building is being assessed by the Consuel for an attestation Mise en Sécurité, not a full Consuel...

On our first trip to france in the early 2000's we stayed in a farmhouse B+B. Lovely people, but the infrastructure left something to be desired.
Like the ensuite toilet and shower that you had to reverse into as there wasn't enough room to turn round!
And when we plugged our tiny little 500 watt travel kettle into the wall socket the room lights...

No LeD, we've done exactly as advised. Drilled out an opening for the flexible pipe to fit through the wall.

Today has been much cooler here, no humidity and the problem still persists. It's just a pain having to take everything back now we have a gaping hole in the wall.

I agree but I still think the amount of water being extracted is what it...

I would recommend an oil filled wall mounted radiator, they have come a long way, nice to look at, thermostatically controlled and 24/7 timer, this one is quite expensive but budget £250-£350 for a 2kw (2000w), the oil retains some of the heat for longer when cooling down after it is switched off.
We have one in our kitchen in Brittany, I can...

I was going to post that I had chatted with him on this subject. It seems that the later ones, yours at least have been reprogrammed with a time/current cut off curve that is close to the characteristics of what the old thermal disjoncteur d'abonné had and will trip at a similar overcurrent.

Remains to be seen whether its firmware in the later...

Fluorescent tube luminaires are a bit old hat nowadays - I have been using some 5 foot led fittings with led tubes in them in my new workshop, they give a better sharper light as long as you get the bright white ones 4000K colour temperature.
Be sure to buy the fittings that have the replaceable led tube in them, some just have led strips in them...

Nope totally wrong, PVA is water bourn, it is in fact Polyvinyl Acetate that once the water has evaporated leaves behind a waterproof surface, I think you believed and listened to often to the Chocolate Teapot, if you apply any render to a surface that still has wet PVA on it I give in, ..................... I can't be bothered with this anymore,...